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COVID-19: an existential threat for Indigenous peoples of the Amazon (7-21-20)

COVID-19: an existential threat for Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Theodor Borrmann, PreventionWeb 7-21-20 “The guardians of the forests are in danger!”, Tuntiak Katan observes at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. His warning still echoes and reverberates in my head. Over the last three months, the coronavirus...

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Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People (7-19-20)

Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado  7-19-20 The telltale symptoms began in late May, about a week after government medical workers made a routine visit to the Kanamari Indigenous community in a remote part of the Amazon:...

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Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply (6-15-20)

Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply Scott Wallace, National Geographic 6-15-20 With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled...

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Carta do AKAVAJA – ASSOCIAÇÃO DOS KANAMARI VALE DO JAVARI (6-5-20)

Carta do AKAVAJA - ASSOCIAÇÃO DOS KANAMARI VALE DO JAVARI AKAVAJA 6-5-20 Nós Caciques, Lideranças, Professores, Conselheiros Locais e comunidade TÜKÜNA (Kanamari) e MATSÉS (Mayuruna) do Médio Javari, através de seus representantes legais, da Associação dos Kanamari Vale do Javari (AKAVAJA) e a Associação Matsés do Alto Jaquirana...

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APELO URGENTE! O COVID-19, está asfixiando os índios Kanamari do Vale do Javari, Amazônia (6-11-20)

APELO URGENTE! O COVID-19, está asfixiando os índios Kanamari do Vale do Javari, Amazônia AKAVAJA 6-11-20 Os Kanamari (autodenominados Tüküna), da Terra Indígena Vale do Javari, lançam nesta semana uma campanha de arrecadação de recursos para que eles possam continuar nas aldeias durante a pandemia da covid-19. Até...

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